Only Change the DVD Player regions 5 times!?

neilfromwashington wrote:

I have changed it five times previously

And each time you were warned that, "You can change the region code of a DVD drive only five times (including the original setting); the fifth setting is permanent", weren't you?

Maybe its time to look at the competition

Definitely. And please do share the results.

Below is an excerpt from my Fujitsu Lifebook user guide (capitalisation and stress is theirs):

• ALL LIFEBOOK DVD PLAYERS ARE SET TO PLAY DVD TITLES WITH REGION CODE NUMBER 1 WHICH IS SPECIFIED FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN MARKET. THE REGION NUMBER IS A REGIONAL RESTRICTION CODE DEFINED BY THE DVD FORUM ACTING ON HOLLYWOOD REQUIREMENTS. DIFFERENT REGION CODES ARE RECORDED ON VIDEO DVD TITLES FOR PUBLICATION IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE WORLD. IF THE REGIONAL CODE OF THE DVD PLAYER DOES NOT MATCH THE REGIONAL CODES ON THE TITLES, THEN PLAYBACK IS IMPOSSIBLE.

• YOU CAN CHANGE THE REGION CODE ON THE DVD PLAYER USING THE PROPERTIES MENU OF THE DVD SOFTWARE. NOTE, HOWEVER, THAT YOU CAN ONLY CHANGE THE REGION CODE UP TO FOUR TIMES. AFTER THE 4TH CHANGE, THE LAST CODE ENTERED BECOMES PERMANENT, AND CANNOT BE CHANGED.

Wow Neil, ranting without the facts. This is part of the licensing agreement between the manufacturers of DVD's and the manufacturers of the DVD players. Lots of reasons for it, but the major one was price discrimination, allowing the publisher to charger more or less in different regions.

But enjoy the competition. I'm sure you'll go off on something else without any facts.

So now that you've bricked your built-in optical drive, why not remove and replace it with a 1TB hard drive, onto which you can load and save all those movies you would otherwise have to carry around on bulky, fragile DVDs?

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/drive_bracket/datadoubler/

neilfromwashington wrote:

I am an NGO

Good for you.

Dear Ms Marlin

If you do your NGOing with the same skill at information gathering and the same exquisite good manners you've displayed here, you must be very successful.

I agree with you, neilfromwashington.

My AWA DVD player ( about 10 years old!) will play DVDs that Apple tells me are for different regions (1 - US and 2 - Aus). It sets no limit on how many times I insert DVDs for these regions.

So what is Apple's problem?

The "Support Community" is often extremely partisan and can be belligerently bigoted against any criticism of god (AKA SJ) as fane_j' response would indicate ;-)

I would like to reiterate, that this is not an apple issue. As much as I hate and despise apple products, and want to find anything thing I can to make them seem worse than they actually are, windows computers have the same issue. It is not an issue with apple it is an issue with the developers of the dvd drives.

Nothing to do with Apple. This is how ALL DVD players and drives operate in order to get the stamp of approval from the MPAA.

Amen.